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Re: configure --with-uuid=bsd fails on NetBSD

Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Cc: pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org
Date: 2022-08-21T01:37:32Z
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Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> writes:
> On 2022-08-20 19:39:32 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
>> In the course of setting up a NetBSD buildfarm animal, I discovered
>> that this is a lie.

> Also recently reported as a bug: https://postgr.es/m/17358-89806e7420797025%40postgresql.org
> with a bunch of discussion.

Ah, I'd totally forgotten that thread :-(.  After Peter pointed
to the existence of new UUID format proposals, I kind of lost
interest in doing a lot of work to implement our own not-quite-
per-spec V1 generator.

> Perhaps we should make them error out instead? It doesn't seem helpful to
> just return something wrong...

Yeah, might be appropriate.

			regards, tom lane

Commits

  1. Reject bogus output from uuid_create(3).